Bug#825439: libnss-mymachines: Add mymachine module to passwd and group

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le 17/07/18 à 01:58, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Hi bigon
>
> On Thu, 26 May 2016 23:26:01 +0200 Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org>
> wrote:
>> Package: libnss-mymachines
>> Version: 230-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The nss-mymachines manpage states:
>>
>>         Here is an example /etc/nsswitch.conf file that enables nss-mymachines correctly:
>>
>>             passwd:         compat mymachines
>>             group:          compat mymachines
>>             [...]
>>
>> Doesn't that means that the postinst script should also add the module to passwd and group
>>
> I've just checked a Fedora VM, and it seems to only enable mymachines
> for hosts (as we do in Debian):
>
> # grep mymachines /etc/nsswitch.conf
> hosts:  files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname mymachines
>
>
> Now I wonder whether the upstream docs are correct on this matter and we
> should actually enable it for passwd/group, or if the docs should be fixed.

For what I can see in the source, mymachine module implement the 
functions for the passwd and group databases as well:

nss-mymachines.c:enum nss_status _nss_mymachines_getpwnam_r(
nss-mymachines.c:enum nss_status _nss_mymachines_getpwuid_r(
nss-mymachines.c:enum nss_status _nss_mymachines_getgrnam_r(
nss-mymachines.c:enum nss_status _nss_mymachines_getgrgid_r(


Maybe it's not ready or broken?